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I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

cushychicken wrote: post #9

Oh goodness, someone else who shares my irrational antipathy for Workday! Workday is such junk from a user facing perspective. It’s a huge pain to index content from. I have to omit a bunch of big semiconductor companies from my job site because it’s fucking impossible to get job data out of Workday. If you work in talent at either NXP or Qualcomm, please God read this essay. You are actively harming your own recruit…

I have a friend who does HR & payroll database management for one of the largest health insurers. In the past couple of years, they've switched over to Workday from Peoplesoft. After 25 years with them, it's making my friend want to quit. It's that bad, from the inside too. Apparently, things that were routine in Peoplesoft are difficult in Workday, and things that were merely hard are simply impossible.

Re: I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took

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Post by smnrchrds »

rdedev wrote: post #204
smnrchrds wrote: post #196

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Which add-on is that? Do you happen to have a link?

https://simplify.jobs/ This is the site I mentioned. They provide an addon for auto filling workday applications

Thank you!

Re: I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took

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Post by 0xffff2 »

remus wrote: post #140
0xffff2 wrote: post #86

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Can you describe in more detail what this actually means? I can't imagine what I would spend an hour doing to my resume that would somehow make it more attractive to a specific employer without outright lying.

Answering as someone who's done a little hiring recently, but for me it's obvious when someone has put some time and effort in to their application via the cover letter. A good application will demonstrate some understanding of what the role is likely to entail, a bit about the company as a whole and a bit of understanding of the wider market the company works in. Granted this is for a relatively small company in a n…

Meanwhile, as someone who has done some hiring I throw all cover letters in the (mostly virtual, these days) trash. I have never once found them to be a meaningful signal.

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Post by lewdev »

Mystrl wrote: post #183
BeetleB wrote: post #161

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> I adopt my resumé, write the motivation letter. Only to find out that the other side didn't read that letter, and most didn't read the resume. I know, because I asked.

Funny story. When I was going the coop workshops in uni they invited in some people from microsoft to talk about what they look for in a cover letter and they straight up said they don't read them.

That's good to hear because I stopped writing them because I started to feel like it discouraged companies from looking further.

I believe people in the hiring process are looking to work efficiently and a cover letter is just more stuff to read. They want to just read your resume because that's what will get passed around and what matters. Anything in your cover letter is mostly things they want to know in the interview.

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Post by Nannooskeeska »

lewdev wrote: post #214
Mystrl wrote: post #183

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Funny story. When I was going the coop workshops in uni they invited in some people from microsoft to talk about what they look for in a cover letter and they straight up said they don't read them.

That's good to hear because I stopped writing them because I started to feel like it discouraged companies from looking further. I believe people in the hiring process are looking to work efficiently and a cover letter is just more stuff to read. They want to just read your resume because that's what will get passed around and what matters. Anything in your cover letter is mostly things they want to know in the inter…

This thread is interesting to me because I was told by my manager that my cover letter was a big reason they decided to interview me for my current job. Granted this was nearly 5 years ago, so things may have (read: have definitely) changed on the hiring front since then.

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

MattPalmer1086 wrote: post #189
BeFlatXIII wrote: post #186

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> It was really hard to filter down who to interview because they all look the same and we only had one position Did you make up some BS metrics, or did you do the honest thing and draw résumés from a hat?

From my experience, when you have too many similar resumes there are no useful metrics you can define. You just have to choose some to interview and bin the rest.

That's pretty much what I meant by "do the honest thing and draw some from a hat", thanks for the information.

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Post by sambazi »

CapstanRoller wrote: post #209
sambazi wrote: post #203

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tbf the dynamic range here is pretty big. there are usually old/unmaintained houses on the edge of nowhere to buy for less than a years rent of a flat in downtown.

In what country? Here in Washington State USA any place that's remotely habitable is either very expensive or gets snatched up immediately.

in the countryside. an hours drive away from the "big city" with 100k population should be good.

you probably have to adjust your sense of "habitable" as well and put in some work.

not saying it's easy or nice

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Post by sambazi »

blitzar wrote: post #210
sambazi wrote: post #202

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idk over-promising and under-delivering is called business isn't it?

Its a bold demonstration that you have the Sigma Grindset needed for success.

owned a mitsubishi sigma once, nice car unless something broke.

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Post by CapstanRoller »

sambazi wrote: post #217
CapstanRoller wrote: post #209

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In what country? Here in Washington State USA any place that's remotely habitable is either very expensive or gets snatched up immediately.

in the countryside. an hours drive away from the "big city" with 100k population should be good. you probably have to adjust your sense of "habitable" as well and put in some work. not saying it's easy or nice

>you probably have to adjust your sense of "habitable" as well and put in some work.

eat bugs and live in pods? that's no way to live

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